Amy Marcy Beach (1867-1944) is best known as having been a child prodigy who became a successfully acclaimed pianist and America’s most amazing female composer of her time.
Upbringing and Era within her life:
Amy Marcy Chaney was born between noon and 1 p.m. on the 5th of September in 1867 in West Henniker, New Hampshire. Amy was born just nine months after her parents were married. Amy lived with several family members in a two story house on a farm. In the late nineteenth century, the farm did not provide the family main support. Her father was the third generation who milled paper at the Moses and Cheney’s paper mill. The home was very modest. The house did not have a front porch; however, it did have a piano. Amy’s mother was a talented pianist and singer. Amy’s grandmother Marcy was a…show more content… As a woman, she defied all traditional conventions and was able to create some of the most notable musical works of her time. This made her the first successful woman composer. She was well known for her large repertoire of musical and solo achievements. Amy went on to show the world her styles of music composition and symphonies. Some of her well-known highlights are songs such as the ‘The three years at the spring’. Her other creations included choral pieces and symphonies such as the ‘Gaelic Symphony’ making her the first ever woman in history to work on these genres. Amy Beach went on to become one of the most influential musical artists of all time. In 1892, she astonished audiences with her first ever orchestral composition called ‘Mass in E-flat major’, numbered Opus 5. This was performed by the Handel and Haydn Society and was very well received by critics and listeners. She continued composing and writing works such as ‘Eilende Wolken’, and ‘Festival Jubilate’
Following the death of her husband in 1910, Beach spent a couple of years in
